WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4559, 15 August 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

& , : ; This day. The value of the gold taken from'the Golden Crown claim is stated by good authorities to range from £315s to £3 18s. per ounce. v Mr Williamson, the manager' of the company, 'writing to a tlbca^pdper on the result, says:—" It has settled once and for; all the question of; a payable goldfield in the immediate vicinity of Wellington. There is reason to believe that inevitable loss, arising from curing of the plates, and in connection with the new machinery, as well as an admittedly insufficient supply of. water to keep, the tables clear during the greater portion of the crushing, may, be moderately estimated at not less than haVf an ounce per ton.- It may; therefore, safely be asserted that the first trial of stone at Terawhiti ; has produced at least 2ozs of retorted gold from each ton of quartz; passed through the battery. The unanimous verdict f "of experienced miners goes to .show that the supply of golden stone is practically unlimited in the Golden Crown claim, and as no one can suppose that this quartz is confined to this particular claim •r-for,in -fact, we have daily reports of reefs outcropping all along a vast length of line, we may, with every assurance, predict a speedy development of ,the new goldfield to a degree difficult to realise at the present moment." ■ ■-,;- > .;;